Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
HARUKI MURAKAMIYoung people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
More Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
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I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
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I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
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I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
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